The weather in the USA...

[bcuster]

late autumn blizzard in Hawaii

Hawaii pummeled with near-blizzard conditions just a week after Mauna Loa’s eruption simmers

The mainland isn't the only one experiencing a major winter storm. Just a week after Mauna Loa stopped erupting, Winter Storm Warnings were issued for Hawaii's Big Island.

news.yahoo.com

 

[bcuster]

forecast as of now says that NYC will miss the blizzard but that friday's high will be 57 and drop to 19 overnight.
but you're right in the target there, aren't you.

 

[bcuster]

6.4 mag earthquake in SoCal, widespread power loss:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/us/humboldt-county-california-earthquake/index.html

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The current temp here is 3 degrees F (-16 c). I'm told its only going to get colder as the week goes on and they're expecting a blizzard starting tomorrow and -11 F (-24 c) temp on Thursday. The wind chills will be deadly. Usually, we don't get weather this cold until February. I've turned the heat down to the lowest level possible without letting the pipes freeze.

 

[story]

I've heard some of them suggest that this is god's doing and the start of Armageddon. They think they'll be raptured out before it gets bad.

I have a cousin in California who says anything and everything that happens is god’s plan, and the real life is the afterlife; nothing that happens here matters so long as you adhere to biblical doctrine. So climate change isn’t a problem, it’s gods‘s plan. Outcomes of climate change are part of that plan.


I haven’t spoken to him for several years but I’m guessing he’s now saying he expects the rapture within his lifetime.

 

[story]

The current temp here is 3 degrees F (-16 c). I'm told its only going to get colder as the week goes on and they're expecting a blizzard starting tomorrow and -11 F (-24 c) temp on Thursday. The wind chills will be deadly. Usually, we don't get weather this cold until February. I've turned the heat down to the lowest level possible without letting the pipes freeze.

Good luck!

 

[bcuster]

I have a cousin in California who says anything and everything that happens is god’s plan, and the real life is the afterlife; nothing that happens here matters so long as you adhere to biblical doctrine. So climate change isn’t a problem, it’s gods‘s plan. Outcomes of climate change are part of that plan.


I haven’t spoken to him for several years but I’m guessing he’s now saying he expects the rapture within his lifetime.

not all christians believe in the rapture...

 

[NoXion]

I have a cousin in California who says anything and everything that happens is god’s plan, and the real life is the afterlife; nothing that happens here matters so long as you adhere to biblical doctrine. So climate change isn’t a problem, it’s gods‘s plan. Outcomes of climate change are part of that plan.


I haven’t spoken to him for several years but I’m guessing he’s now saying he expects the rapture within his lifetime.

Do these people bother looking when they cross the street? Besides, people working to mitigate climate change is also part of God's supposed plan.

Also, if God's plan involves billions of people suffering the effects of climate chaos (never mind all the other bad shit that happens in the world), then God is a fucking monster unworthy of worship.

not all christians believe in the rapture...

It's a popular heresy in the US. More than that, it's a heresy with powerful backing. A lot of the US's support for Israel comes from evangelical elites who think the restoration of Israel, the deaths of millions of Jews and the subsequent conversion of any survivors to Christianity is part of God's plan. They are as monstrous as the bestial blood god they worship.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

not all christians believe in the rapture...

No, it's mostly an Evangelical doctrine which is just the beginning of their heretical takes on Christianity.

 

[Pickman's model]

I have a cousin in California who says anything and everything that happens is god’s plan, and the real life is the afterlife; nothing that happens here matters so long as you adhere to biblical doctrine. So climate change isn’t a problem, it’s gods‘s plan. Outcomes of climate change are part of that plan.


I haven’t spoken to him for several years but I’m guessing he’s now saying he expects the rapture within his lifetime.

He's in for a surprise

 

[petee]

heresy

exactly, because "no one knows the day or hour" and to claim that you have an idea is to presume on god, which is as bad as it gets.
full disclosure: the sun will keep expanding bit by bit and incinerate us one day far in the suture ...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

exactly, because "no one knows the day or hour" and to claim that you have an idea is to presume on god, which is as bad as it gets.
full disclosure: the sun will keep expanding bit by bit and incinerate us one day far in the suture ...

By then, I'm sure that humans would have been extinct for millions of years. Likely, followed by any number of other intelligent species who fuck things up almost as much as we have.

 

[NoXion]

I'm an incorrigible optimist. Even if we don't figure it out, there are billions of years of habitability left on this one rock alone. Never mind the hundred trillion years left of star formation left in this universe. We're merely the prelude of the grand story of life. It's up to us if we're to be a cameo or a recurring character in that story.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

By then, I'm sure that humans would have been extinct for millions of years. Likely, followed by any number of other intelligent species who fuck things up almost as much as we have.

Yeah, the planet has got about 1 billion years left before the oceans boil off but humans will be toast long before that.

Good luck with the freezing weather in the US.

 

[petee]

dropping from 50 to minus-8 in denver tomorrow i see.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

dropping from 50 to minus-8 in denver tomorrow i see.

Some of the wind chills across the US are projected to be in the -50 F to -65 F range this week.

I'm wondering how Texas will fare. Last year their grid went down when it got really cold. None of their grid is hardened for freezing temperatures, and they've basically done nothing to fix that since last year.

 

[spring-peeper]

The current temp here is 3 degrees F (-16 c). I'm told its only going to get colder as the week goes on and they're expecting a blizzard starting tomorrow and -11 F (-24 c) temp on Thursday. The wind chills will be deadly. Usually, we don't get weather this cold until February. I've turned the heat down to the lowest level possible without letting the pipes freeze.

If you turn your taps on to dribble a bit, the pipes will not freeze.

 

[WouldBe]

the deaths of millions of Jews and the subsequent conversion of any survivors to Christianity is part of God's plan. They are as monstrous as the bestial blood god they worship.

So god's a Nazi.

 

[ska invita]

 

[teqniq]

Some of the wind chills across the US are projected to be in the -50 F to -65 F range this week.

I'm wondering how Texas will fare. Last year their grid went down when it got really cold. None of their grid is hardened for freezing temperatures, and they've basically done nothing to fix that since last year.

Just seen this. Here's hoping they are prepared as they say:

Texans should prepare for “life-threatening” wind chills, but officials remain confident in power grid

Gov. Greg Abbott and other leaders say Texans should protect their homes and vehicles as large portions of the state will experience dangerously cold temperatures.

www.texastribune.org

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Just seen this. Here's hoping they are prepared as they say:

Texans should prepare for “life-threatening” wind chills, but officials remain confident in power grid

Gov. Greg Abbott and other leaders say Texans should protect their homes and vehicles as large portions of the state will experience dangerously cold temperatures.

www.texastribune.org

I hope they are prepared too. Reading that though it doesn't sound like they changed the core problem. This article said that it was primarily frozen wells and blocked pipes that caused the cascading failure, not a lack of fuel or frozen windmills as Gov. Abbot claimed. Also, they have a problem not having enough power generation capacity overall:

Meanwhile, the energy providers were also struggling with the elements. The cold weather froze natural gas wells and blocked pipes. It froze wind turbines and coal piles.

Contrary to what some state politicians have suggested, the blackouts weren’t primarily the fault of frozen wind turbines. It was essentially a problem with natural gas, which is the state’s primary energy source.

But the result of that was the grid not being able to produce as much power when consumers demanded more of it.

Generators – which convert fuel into power – exist to ramp up and match demand. So when demand was too high, they overloaded and automatically went offline as a precautionary measure. Other generators tried to make up for it, but they also overloaded and went offline. Had that continued, it could have cascaded into a statewide blackout.

What Caused the Texas Power Outage? - Lowell Corporation Blog

The Texas power outage, which left millions without power in February 2021, was an energy disaster. But how did it actually happen?

lowellcorp.com

I found this interesting because it comes from the power generation industry, and not a typical news source.

 

[spring-peeper]

Most of the continent will be getting horrible weather.

• Midwest: Midwestern U.S. states into the Great Lakes can expect blizzard conditions from snow and strong winds, and light to moderate snowfall is forecast. Heavier snow could exceed a foot over the Great Lakes through Friday. St. Louis, Detroit and Chicago will all be hit. “The big deal in these areas is not the amount of snow, but the extreme cold accompanying the snow and the extreme wind,” Kines said.
• Northeast: Mostly rain is expected ahead of the storm system Thursday and Friday in the East, according to AccuWeather. “The cold air is racing eastward, and once the rain ends in a lot of spots, temperatures will plummet,” Kines said. That could lead to a rapid freeze in areas such as New York City by Friday. Combined with the new moon tide cycle, dangerous coastal flooding could occur from northern New Jersey to northeast Massachusetts, according to the National Weather Service.
• South: More than 4.4 million people were under a weather service-issued hard-freeze warning in parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. “Even all the way down into Texas and eventually Florida will receive some of this cold,” Kines said. Widespread subzero wind chills may creep into Texas and parts of the Deep South through the week's end, the weather service said.

Most of US to be 'dangerously cold' as holiday week winter storm spawns blizzard, whiteout conditions

More than 50 million Americans are under a wind chill warning as brutal cold and a blockbuster blizzard approach a huge swath of the nation.

www.usatoday.com

Meteorologists expect the most widespread weather hazard over the next few days to be related to the extremely cold air mass set to chill the central and eastern parts of the U.S.

Wind-chill values could drop as low as minus 70 degrees across the central High Plains, according to the National Weather Service. This level of cold could cause frostbite on exposed skin within minutes, hypothermia and even death during prolonged exposure, forecasters warned.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Getting an ice storm at the moment. It's coming down as rain and freezing as it hits. I'm safe at home and watching the skating rink the road outside has turned into as people head home from work. Current temp: 19 F.

 

[spring-peeper]

Getting an ice storm at the moment. It's coming down as rain and freezing as it hits. I'm safe at home and watching the skating rink the road outside has turned into as people head home from work. Current temp: 19 F.

Really glad you are home.

Hopefully, the freezing rain will not knock the power out.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

-13 F (-25 C), with about four inches of blowing snow. Windchill -40 F.

 

[ska invita]

frostbite within 5 minutes of being outside according to the bbc weatherman
with windchill:

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

frostbite within 5 minutes of being outside according to the bbc weatherman
with windchill:


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I went out to start my car today and the wind was so cold it felt like it was burning your skin. Car turned over on the first try. Good news is that traffic is moving, and everything seems to be back to normal. I was surprised that it wasn't slick, with the freezing rain we got before the snowfall.

 

[WouldBe]

frostbite within 5 minutes of being outside according to the bbc weatherman
with windchill:


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Depends what your wearing.

 

[bcuster]

It's looking grim. I hope the grid holds up. God help us

Merry Christmas...

Elkhart County, St. Joseph County in Michigan added to Blizzard Warning list

The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning for St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Berrien Cass, and St. Joseph County in Michigan and a Winter Storm Warning for the entire listening area. The warnings begin on Thursday afternoon and last through early Saturday afternoon. Temperatures...

www.953mnc.com

Blizzard and winter storm conditions expected across Michiana through Saturday

Lots of changes will take place today!A BLIZZARD WARNING will be in effect for La Porte and St. Joseph Co., IN and Berrien, St Joseph and Cass Co., MI from 4 p

wsbt.com

 

[spring-peeper]

Depends what your wearing.

The warning is for exposed skin.